Saturday, September 28, 2013

hypocrisy

wow, it's been a while. i find myself being in really bloggable situations and i think to myself, "omg, i MUST blog about this". but i'm at work or whatever and get distracted and forget. so here it is several months since my last post and something has bothered me so much that i haven't forgotten.

first i kind of want to vent. i've been so bummed. silly me, for the last several years thinking that times had REALLY changed. you know, with a black man being in the white house and all. and you know, i keep hearing about white people becoming the minority soon. but now, it seems like suddenly things are not so progressive. i feel like i've seen more racism ( white on black) than i ever have. and i feel like since we've had a black president, white people feel insecure. like they're losing their "place" in the world. i feel like it's a trickle down effect from the government even down to the average joe working a blue collar 9-5.

maybe i've been really naive and my eyes have finally been opened. i'm not sure why i've noticed so much blatant racism during a time where things are supposed to be so progressive. but i honestly don't recall seeing it so much before Obama was president.

what about you? is it just me? i'm really curious to hear your experiences.

also, i 'm am so annoyed by the hypocrisy in the media about racism. like, someone white will call someone a nigger and EVERYONE in the media ( news anchors, reporters, celebrities, etc), all shake their head and act like they can't imagine ever saying it, or knowing anyone who would say it, or even think it. but it's like: we keep hearing stories about this white person saying it, that white person saying it, but how come NO ONE white ever seems to know anything? or how come white people always act so shocked and appalled that another white person said it? how come no one ever seems to know who these people are?

the truth is, they all know people, likely family who call black people niggers in their mind at least, if not behind closed doors. plain and simple. they all front like, "oh my god! that's terrible that paula deen said that! how could she? *gasp*!" knowing good and well many white people still use that word. they just try to keep it on the down low. it's not politically correct to dislike anyone publicly anymore. and that's just what it boils down to. racism is very alive and well. ugh.

9 comments:

Yes this is true! I was recently in a cab and the cab driver kept making racist comment about OBama, I realize that he assumed that I was some type fof hispanic person, he really scared me to the point that I was visibly shaking when I had gotten out of the cab.

I'm sorry, but white people won't be a minority any time soon. Whoever tells you that has an agenda. With black folks only around 15% of the population, Mr.Obama still became president. If whites were so racist as you seem to almost want to think, he would've never made it. That's just simple math.

Also, why do you not address the bigotry of blacks by Asians or Latinos? I'm thinking it's because you don't mix with them. Why? Are they too different for your social tastes? Madam, you have a victim complex and it's making you paranoid. That said, I do know people from these groups. Friendly, hard working people. And guess what? Some of them are way, way more 'racist' than white people I know.

My neighborhoood is loud, dirty, and crime ridden. It's mostly black. When I go to white friends neighborhoods, people are friendly but not nosy, they don't harass their neighbors, the yards and streets are clean because they get out and clean them, not the city, they don't have any dog fighting or grown men wandering and gathering in the dark to drink, kids aren't running around after dark unattended, their yards are kept neat, and they socialize without fighting. The same cannot be said for my mostly black neighborhood, where shit storms of some kind are constantly brewing. Excessive drama they create all by themselves. No white people around, no cops nagging. The cops used to courtesy cruise, but no more. That's because they're here mostly now for domestic violence calls.

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